Wooded Landscape

Thorvald Erichsen's Wooded Landscape, from around 1900, demonstrates his engagement with the Norwegian forest as a subject — a landscape type that had deep roots in the national painting tradition established by J.C. Dahl and developed by subsequent generations. Erichsen brought Post-Impressionist colour sensibility to this inherited subject, transforming the conventional naturalistic rendering of trees and undergrowth into an exploration of colour and light in the forest interior. The National Museum's holding places it alongside his other landscapes as evidence of his contribution to the Norwegian Post-Impressionist movement.

The wooded landscape interior presented Erichsen with broken, filtered light filtering through a canopy — a subject well suited to Post-Impressionist colour experiments. His handling uses varied, energetic strokes to build the complex texture of foliage and dappled shadow with chromatic richness.